Wow! That works fast and neat. Thanks!
Is there any way to make it hi-light the placemarker for the endnote in the main text? I find those little guys hard to see in a big text file, and usually hi-light them yellow.

One minor problem is that the macro doesn't pause at each found instance (and give the option to perform the conversion or else move to the next found instance), but just zips right through the whole file like a bullet.

I have occasionally used those same brackets ( "< >" ) to indicate other things as well --I know, sloppy, and a bad symbol to use anyway, since it's prone to be interpreted in macros as a find function switch rather than an actual character-- so it would be nice if I could pause at each find and decide on a per case basis to perform the endnote conversion or not.

But believe me, it's much less work pulling the errant misconversions back out of the endnotes than hunting and converting each one, so really thanks! Don't think I could ever have figged that one out.